Sentences with phrase «criminal complaint unsealed»

That's the code word Todd Howe and Percoco used to describe bribes that were funneled to Percoco or his wife — at least $ 315,000 in all, according to the criminal complaint unsealed this morning.

Halloran is accused in a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday of, among other things, accepting more than $ 24,000 in cash and campaign funds in exchange for agreeing to appropriate $ 80,000 in discretionary money from the council.

According to a federal criminal complaint unsealed in Sept. 2016, Competitive Power Ventures had sought to obtain a power - purchase agreement from NYPA, which would have helped finance the company's power plant in Orange County.

According to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday, Pigeon is accused of trying to arrange a large contribution by a foreign national to what his attorney identified as Governor Cuomo's campaign.

In doing so, says a 79 - page criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday, Mr. Percoco and Mr. Howe sought to enrich themselves through bribes, using their positions to help particular companies receive «hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official state benefits.»

Not exact matches

What: A guilty plea by Howe was unsealed when Preet Bharara announced a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan on public corruption charges against nine people in September 2016.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The U.S. Attorneys for New York's Western District unsealed a criminal complaint Monday, charging former Erie County Democratic Committee chairman Steve Pigeon with soliciting a campaign contribution from a foreign national and conspiring with other to commit the offense.

«The criminal complaint should be unsealed because it is a public record, the public has a right to know the specifics of the criminal allegations against Nojay, and because the continued sealing of the record could imply that Nojay has received preferential treatment in death that others do not receive,» attorney Christopher Thomas wrote.

But that support slipped after federal law enforcement unsealed a criminal complaint that alleged Skelos used his power to aid the business interests of his adult son, Adam Skelos, who was named as co-defendant.

Stay tuned,» Bharara said in 2015, while unsealing a criminal complaint against former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

While some political corruption cases are not announced until indictments are unsealed, in the case of Mr. Skelos and of Mr. Silver, Mr. Bharara chose to bring criminal complaints to court on his own first before turning the case over to a grand jury.

The case, in part, has focused on Glenwood Management, an investor in AbTech and a prolific campaign donor who Skelos sought to exert influence over, according to an unsealed criminal complaint.

When Assemblyman Bill Nojay killed himself on the morning of September 9th, he was supposed to be in federal court for the unsealing of a criminal complaint against him.

It's unusual for someone accused of a crime to die before the criminal complaint or indictment can be unsealed.

«Here we go again,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said after the latest criminal complaint was unsealed.

Hours after reports surfaced that Cuomo's former deputy executive secretary and political enforcer Joseph Percoco would face arrest today, the prosecutor for the Southern District of New York unsealed a criminal complaint implicating not just Percoco but seven other men.

The criminal complaint, unsealed on Monday, lays out corruption charges against Senator Skelos and his son, Adam B. Skelos, the latest scandal to seize Albany, and potentially alter its power structure.